Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:40:02 GMT
From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/130274: [sysvipc] Can't shmget() more than 2GB of memory, regardless of kern.ipc.shm{max, all}
Message-ID: <200901151540.n0FFe23h009289@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/130274; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,
kirk@strauser.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: kern/130274: [sysvipc] Can't shmget() more than 2GB of memory, regardless of kern.ipc.shm{max,all}
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:37:23 -0600
Anyone? This is a very real problem for people running PostgreSQL on
machines with lots of memory. Since PostgreSQL tuning guides tend to
recommend using 1/4 of RAM for shared memory, this means that anyone
with more than 8GB of RAM is running a suboptimal setup.
--
Kirk Strauser
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